camelbeard, 1 year ago

It’s an article from a Dutch professor, unfortunately paywalled

fd.nl/…/autobanden-de-grote-vergeten-vervuiler

On his linked he summarized some points

nl.linkedin.com/…/carlo-van-de-weijer-961998_auto…

Google translated

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• In the Netherlands, a total of around twenty million kilos of tire grit in various degrees remains in the environment every year.
• **A car threw the equivalent of a plastic straw’s worth of microplastics out the window every five to ten kilometers. **
• You cannot remove microplastics from the water with a well-intentioned ocean filter.
• Time to start working on more sustainable or, better, biodegradable tires.